After convincing my employer to move away from MS office I can finally make the permanent switch away from windows.

I settled on pop_os for now since it supports hybrid Nvidia graphics out of the box and I am a noob.

Two questions:

  1. I used OneDrive, and especially the file on-demand (all files on server visible in explorer but only downloaded when needed) feature a lot. What cloud storage provider has the best Linux integration? I dabbled with NeXtCloUD but the Linux client is not great, especially the file on-demand implementation.

  2. What are best practices for managing apps? The last time I entertained the idea of switching, I ended up with applications installed from the snap store, flatpacks, some appimages, some through apt. It quickly gets confusing for me when I want a specific program but it, f.ex., is only distributed through the snap store. Is there a GUI (I know) way to see all applications, where they’re installed from, with an easy remove button? Akin to what windows offers?

  • chi-chan~@lemmy.world
    7·
    6 months ago

    In Pop!_OS, you have the Pop!_Shop, and they added their own repos for software aren’t included in Ubuntu’s repo or exist mainly as Snap packages; they also included Flathub.

    Under the app name you want to install, you’ll have a little drop-down box with option to choose (if there’s more than one option) where to download the package from.

    • rambos@lemm.ee
      2·
      6 months ago

      Pop!_Shop

      That app was slow and laggy for me. I started using app called “Software” and that one is amazing.

      I don’t know why we have 2 stores preinstalled and what is the difference